oh ah ah ah, this is the w news life from berlin as russia ukraine step up there baffled the control of the east nato. believes keith is getting the upper hand ukraine from room. this war. nato secretary general says ukrainians, defense of their homeland and rushes miss steps could spell the feet for moscow. also coming up, we meet the volunteer risking his own life to rescue civilians in the besieged city of mario pool. many of those that he is trying to bring to safety are children.

ah, i manuscripts makennan, welcome to the show. ukraine says that it is bracing for a new purse from russian forces in the eastern region of dumbass. and in the south president vladimir lensky said moscow could not admit that his operation was, quote, as a dead end. now his comments come as the russian forces started withdrawing from the 2nd largest city of ha heath following a ukrainian count for offensive. but while the threat may be receding, bare for civilians still left in the city conditions. a dire here for the thousands of people still sheltering and hockey is metro system. the war is far from over. off to weeks of shelling that's left much of the city in ruins, some scared to leave the safe of the underground. hawk

ugly shave isn't ourself. we are very afraid to go home, but there are so many explosions, so many bombs were very afraid by it's a lot of pressure. my others say that the worst seems to be behind them. longer, shirley blew finishing at the beginning. it was extremely hard and we were more because there were a lot of people here and a lot of destruction. we all felt defeated any with her. you would. now we haven't heard bombs for last 3 to 4 days when the children is that we were through that's likely to be down to the ukranian counter offensive that seen soldiers retake nearby villages like this one. north of hark eve with ukraine, claiming on sundays that some of its troops had even reached the border with russia and set up a new border post. keeps gains in the region. come as it had started putting

western supplied heavy weapons into action. ukraine's army says this is one of several recently arrived us houses. it's already using on the front line in the east with russia still trying to advance in the dumbass there certain to see even more action in the days to come. earlier i spoke to a correspondent, i mean, se for his in levine than i asked him about. the impact recent losses by the russian military were having on the conflict. the ukrainian military has called this said a devastating set back for russia, and it's backed up by british intelligence that russia has lost up to one 3rd of its military forces in the east of ukraine. this is over 10000

soldiers are also hundreds of artillery pieces um and doesn't are over a dozen ships. um, now, what we are seeing on the ground as we've heard is dead har. keith has essentially been liberated from attacks by russia never fell to russian forces, but it was under attack. and this is you can't underestimate how much this means for ukrainians. harkey is the 2nd largest city in ukraine. it was one of 3 major cities, including a key of the capital and mar, you pull in the south that came under instant attack by russians after the invasion, and now kia as well as hark har. keith have been liberated from attacks by russians, but harkey. remember, is not exactly in the dumbasses bordering the region and in the don bass. russia has secured a lot of areas. it's cur. bombarding 23 cities, 23 towns and cities right now. and us intelligence kind of contradicts what we're hearing from british intelligence and ukrainians. and what they're saying is that

it's become a stale made in the danverse and that we're likely to see a prolonged conflict there. he does his, i mean a safe reporting from levied. after weeks, thousands of civilians were stuck in the poor city of marian polo under constant bombardment. without enough food or water. ordinary ukrainians stepped in to evacuate and risking their lives as official efforts to get people out stoled he w spoke to one man. he made the hazardous journey yup. and most i understood that the city is under siege. i understood that nobody is driving there . now. i'm with my employees were there, and i just promised them i would company my friends and i were willing money to buy this bus. i am on their own. i hope all will be fine and that will get there. you will stop. i'm in a clinical post and then when i drove past the last ukrainian checkpoint in nora over i encountered the war, the mines, the burned on tanks,

all the horrors that use a, b, b, b. yes. to bibles here and to hear them. none the less fear was still there, but i drove yeah, yeah. hm. no problem. well, i had a business in mary, jo paul, it was a club. most of the space was in the basement. it had concrete ceiling, so we transformed it into a bomb shelter. and there was a grill, so we could cook food and water. we would joke that this is a 5 star bomb shelter. that's really all that we did come under fire at everything that came at us. missed was something hit here and here. and here you run down here with

a car drove by that moment in that car, grandma died no rush to see the children makes me cry. they're so scared, screaming, i hope god will save them. it's horrific. just horrific. we try our best with so it's all the memory coming back director was what was the 1st opportunity we left. we took children pregnant women and mothers with children. look on my passengers are hello waving to the camera. oh to 1st it was terrifying. what we came across mines and tanks, but there were lots of americans. i mean be dead. people with we told them they

were mannequins, but in fact there were bodies, right? right. o, as in us, another boss has joined us. we are becoming more and more robust global a deal. oh, not on my 1st trip. i was the only one product. and on my 3rd trip i would already be standing in the queue at the checkpoints for 40 minutes. there were so many people and wanted to help and get people out here to lose volunteers had brought thousands out of the city in their own cars in you and many did not return that. have somebody to mind you can put some came into crossfire while driving at night. these are regular ukrainians, regular people at a meeting of nato foreign ministers in berlin, secretary general, yet trachtenberg delivered an upbeat, assessment of trains battle against bathing russian forces. let's take a listen to some of what he had to say. ukraine can win this war, ukrainians,

or bravely defend the their homeland. russia's war in ukraine is not going as moscow had planned. they failed to take here. they are pulling back from around khaki. they're major offensive and almost as sol, russia is not achieving, it's so teaching objectives. frank ledge, which is our regular military analyst from all sit in the u. k. and he gave us his assessment on whether ukraine can win the war against russia, or to put it mildly, the war isn't going to plan as to whether ukraine can win. that is contingent on whether the west continues to supply you credit at the same or an increased rate . the americans are right in. but so the british that they're not necessarily inconsistent. what's developing in the south east now around the town of savannah?

don't ask unless chance is a, a butler, a bottle of attrition and that's not going to be easy at all. it's going to take several months. and unless you claim continues to receive the munitions they need, such as those artillery pieces use on the piece, then they will that they, they, they don't face to feet, but they won't be able to. when one can't emphasize enough, they need those weapons to continue coming in greater and greater quantities. can we talk about the reports aware hearing that russian forces may have fired phosphorus bonds at the as of cell steel plant over the weekend? do you think it was phosphorus that was used? and if so, what does this tell us about russians? military staff strategy going forward? yes, i knew it looked to me looking at those horrendous pictures that that was phosphorus goes a phosphorus, bombs, phosphorus is illegal. it's unlawful under the hague convention of the hey series

of conventions in the law of armed conflict, because it's in centria, burns, and burns, and cannot be put out in central weapon. it's an unlawful weapon. and it demonstrates a certain level of last resort from russia. you are escalating up the lighter of, uh, north of weaponry. russia is fully aware of that. and it does say something. however, what we must remember is that my uncle still stands, it's likely to remain in ukrainian hands for quite some time. this is a heroic and historic military defensive action on the part of the defenders. so yes, russian desperation. but yes, also ukraine continues to hang on that. the british defense ministry, we're hearing a saying that bella roof has announced the deployment of special operations forces along the ukranian border. how significant is this? would you say it's nothing new? the bell russians just finish their spring exercises so their forces are mobilized

along that southern front anyway, and have been for several weeks that in itself is not significant. there is no way . i think most sanders would agree that beller us is going to take part in this war actively with its main force. and it's sort of main main core of soldiers. and what they're doing, however, is fixing ukrainian forces in place and particularly with mentions, as you said before, they're special forces that's going to require countermeasures on the party predators. and that means that those forces will not be reinforcing, don't bust. so what they're doing is holding you creating defenses in place up there. there's no way really that belarus politically and can getting both actively lucas jenko present values. he needs us forces in his country to make sure that his own rather shaky regime stays in place. so we shouldn't worry about invasion from that, but yes, there are significant in the war in the holding ukrainian forces in place up there around jeff military analysts, frankly,

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